Chester40

Interstellar 

Watched it with the kids, their first time.

Chuffed that they loved it.

The narrative gets lost occasionally and you have to suspend belief to enjoy it completely... but bloody hell it's an epic film that is just jam-packed with ideas and emotion.

Ironically it seems to bend time so that it feels very slow-paced as you watch it and then it ends... and you realise you have experienced and felt so much that you can't quite take it all in. 

9/10

Some really nice interplay, bit more intensity and terribly standoffish opposition and Derby have gone full 180 again and look decent.

36 minutes ago, Chris_Martin said:

dunno, but at least we'd have a style

Mentioned it in the match thread that I thought he was the most noticeable culprit for just booting the ball up in the air under no pressure yesterday.

Tues is a must win. Going to be toxic if we lose.

Even a win just buys him time til the next game.

I've never been 'Warne out' but 1 or 2 performances more anywhere near so shocking as yesterday then I'd have to say I was.

I can't say I'd be heartbroken if he left because yesterday we looked totally clueless and I couldn't see what the plan was....even hoofball would have been an improvement, we just looked totally amateurish.

Hourihane, Cashin, Forsyth Washington, Sibley all below par and we had players like Smith and Fornah out because they were poor last time.

Warne looked pretty clueless at the end too. No real explanation of what he was thinking with his selection and tactics, or where we would improve next time.

I've been arguing with the majority that the football hasn't been that bad and it isn't hoofball - but yesterday was worse!! 

Needs a massive improvement and he is now in last chance saloon for me.

I try not to be too knee jerk but I just couldn't see how we were going to get a foothold in the game yesterday with that midfield and Washington up front. Made no sense to me.

Really poor first half  ....as bad as I've seen. Huge backward step.

6 hours ago, MaltRam said:

Rematch now has a selling point and some gravity. A cynic might suggest?

Anyone who saw it have a take on how likely the controversy was pre-meditated? Or am I doing a massive disservice to Ngannou?

My feeling was Fury arrived thinking he'd mess him about for 3 or 4 rounds and then try and take him out in 5 or 6...or if he was durable just prove he was better and then let him take the full 10 rounds.

But he got the surprise of his life.  He was quicker and  snappier and Fury looked incredibly sluggish. When he tried to step it up Ngannou just kept catching him and seeming to hurt him. He was also much stronger in the grappling than Fury expected. 

Fury then realised he needed to properly assert himself and take risks to actually beat him and didn't want to risk getting knocked out.

Ngannou didn't tire and he didn't rush in.

Fury will probably think if they fought again he'd apply himself and win but who knows.

Carl Frampton's reaction was similar to mine in that he genuinely couldn't believe how ordinary Fury was made to look.

MMA was the huge winner last night.

Well that has put the cat amongst the pigeons!!

Fury lost....except he didn't.  Daylight robbery.

Ref is terrible.  Just falling for all their dives and giving us nothing.

Bird and NML giving us a chance forward but need a proper striker really desperately. 

So much better so far.

Washington is having a stinker though.

Cashin has been so clumsy today. Forsyth at times too.

It's like half the team have been out on the lash last night.

Massive halftime coming up.

Unbelievable freekick but Wildsmith has looked poor both times.

Washington is an odd choice so far. Totally anonymous. 

Against the run of 'play' (loose term) but NML gets us even and we can still do this. 

Needs to tinker at half time as we just aren't keeping the ball at all.

Really poor. 

Aying like headless chickens.  

Nor even hoofing it. Just look like strangers today.

Just now, sage said:

Oh do we have your permission now then?

I didn't know you needed it,  but yep I'm giving you the go ahead.

My youngest just said 'Oh my god this is terrible'.

He ain't wrong...

I've been pretty vocal about my feelings that there is a lot of unnecessary moaning about our style of play... thus far it's been as scrappy as a Sunday league game.

People saying Hourihane came over and suggested it was the coaches pushing the use of the long ball- well he's aimlessly launched it 3 times under no pressure.

Nelson has been so good recently.

Smith and Fornah were poor the other week but Sibley, Hourihane, Bird, Washington means we lack a bit of physicality down the middle.

Started well but scrappy now.

15 minutes ago, DCFC1388 said:

No team in this league has scored more away goals than us

Well one of us has just jinxed this game.

1 goal will be enough if we get 3points.

2 minutes ago, TINMANTED said:

who's going to offer more?

Don't disagree....just an observation that we don't look like a team who will score freely. 

Just now, Caerphilly Ram said:

 

Not a heap of goals in that line-up.  Fingers crossed.

The right set of results could see us...what 4 points away from automatic promotion? With 30 odd games left?

The negativity is just not in line with what I'm seeing. A few more poor results and 10-15 points away from automatic and 6-10points from the play offs, with over half the season gone and I'd understand the abject despair that seems to permeate every thread. 

6 minutes ago, Archied said:

But warne and his staff regularly state that they go into every game intent on winning it rather than park the bus , he says he would rather win or lose than go for draws ,

come on we can’t grab everything as a stick to beat him with , I actually want him coming out in his pre game pressers and giving the opposition full respect , anything else is just daft , you don’t even see the likes of pep or klopp ect doing anything other than that, again how you prep the players is a different matter🤷🏻‍♂️

Only need to see the reaction of a few of his own fans to a pretty bland and innocuous reply to a question that specifically referenced 'background noise'. Taken out of context suddenly it was proof of being disrespectful of die-hard loyal fans,  saying they resented being called background noise!

So he would be mad to give any reply wth even a whiff of a 'we should be beating teams like this' nature. 

3 minutes ago, Archied said:

I certainly don’t want our manager coming out in pressers and saying we should win and being over confident ( different with the players in private ) , it’s enough that derby is the big game for most of these clubs without they’re manager being given stuff to pin on the wall or show the player to motivate them even further by feeling we are disrespectful and dismissive of them 🤷🏻‍♂️

Its a 'first be hard to beat' mentality that can be taken 1 of 2 ways - depending on whether you're Warne in/out.

I tend to agree that you start off by winning every 2nd ball, working harder, respecting the opposition, winning your individual battle and imposing yourself on them. 

However, Warne has said he wants to win games at the expense of losing games we may have otherwise drawn, but I can't say I've actually seen that cavalier attitude that much. With the table as it is....we need to start winning games so its irrelevant whether he pays due verbal respect to the opposition, it's about getting the points on the board.